• Had a career conversation with my manager, it was good.

2026-06-03

• [[Listened]]: [[Today in Focus: The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right]]
  • [[Restore Britain]]
  • Big on X. Lead guy [[Rupert Lowe]] is apparently one of biggest UK politicians online.
  • Elon Musk is a fan of Rupert Lowe and [[Restore Britain]].
  • Elon Musk is awful.
  • Too many politicians are using x and letting their rhetoric and language be shaped by the culture on X.
  • Ethnic nationalism versus civic nationalism. Restore Britain very much of the former kind.

• Learnt enough about [[AssemblyScript]] to create an auto-splitter for [[LiveSplit]].
  • Built Stinky splitter. An auto-splitter for [[Gassy GaoGao]].

2026-06-01

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[How to Blow Up a Pipeline]]
    • Discusses [[climate action]] since the 1990s. Climate camps. [[Extinction Rebellion]]. [[Fridays for Future]]. [[Ende Gelände]].
    • He suggests that Ende Gelände has some of the most advanced civil disobedience tactics.
    • General gist so far is that non-violent protest hasn’t made a difference in all the decades it has been happening, so do we need to consider something else?

2026-05-31

• On Friday went to a local screening of the [[People’s Emergency Briefing]].

  • First thoughts: It’s good for what it is but I have a couple of caveats.
  • Felt very UK focused. That’s probably the intention, but at least a mention of the climate effects on countries beyond Europe and why not the focus in this film would have been good.
  • Not a single mention of capitalism as the problem. Just generally talk of too much CO2 without much mention of the ideology that has driven that.
  • It felt quite technocratic. Technological and market solutions rather than radical political change.

• It’s the last day of the month already! How did that happen.

• Need to write [[Emacs Carnival]] post.

  • [[Emacs Carnival: May I recommend…]]

2026-05-30

• [[Listened]]:
  • Science Weekly: Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment?
    • In a nutshell: Humans investing inordinate amounts of resources to try to create artificial humans while ignoring the plight of actual humans and the environment.
    • Apparently [[robotics]] has now been rebranded to [[embodied AI]].
  • Today in Focus: Andy Burnham’s (third) bid for the Labour leadership
    • [[Andy Burnham]].
    • Basically presents as soft left but will say whatever needed to get elected.

• My Surface tablet was getting full. It only has 256GB of internal storage!
  • I had a Dev Drive. It’s gone now. It was taking about 6 or 7 GB of disk space from all the [[JavaScript]] repositories and packages. I used [[pnpm]] but I think it didn’t really worked with that drive? I wasn’t too sure what a Dev Drive actually did.
    • Since I removed the Dev Drive and moved my repositories back, I can use [[Windows]]‘ native compacting features.
  • Installed CompactGUI to automate native OS compacting.
  • Ran git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250 on some large repositories.
  • I’m now left with 47 GB free.
  • Probably should use OneDrive more often.
• My [[Git]] + [[SilverBullet]] setup wasn’t the most optimal. I figured out why.
  Recall the default .gitattributes from GitHub Desktop. * text=auto is a good default, but it can be made better for SilverBullet.
  So, I now have * eof=lf in the .gitattributes file. This is because SilverBullet+ syncs files with LF line endings.
  • I am yet to observe “No content changes” messages from GitHub Desktop Plus.
• I’m going to try not publishing new journal entries to spacious nexus‘ site for now.
  • Maybe this can encourage me to use more of the [[agora protocol]]. Tends to feel alienating when published.
  • Something [[SEO]] related. Need a control.
• I woke up again. I figured out why. It’s [[Friday]]. Uh oh.
  • I’m missing out. Not too sure of it.

2026-05-27

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[Today in Focus: The death penalty returns to Israel]]
    • But essentially for Palestinians only.

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Ignoring AI means ceding power over it to others]]

• Created a [[content warning]] component for [[Quartz]] 4.
• Noticed that Quartz 5 is being released.
  • Probably won’t upgrade to it. Mainly:
    • Current setup works fine.
    • Slugs are generated differently.
  • Port some of my additions to Quartz 5.

2026-05-26

• [[Listened]]:

  • Science Weekly: Ebola: how does it spread and can the outbreak be contained?

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • 99% invisble: Episode 666 Enshittification

• TODO for today, some of it work related :)
  • Prep presentation base for tomorrow
  • Write to [[BAA]]?

2026-05-25

• Wrote:

  • [[We need a digital shock doctrine for the left]].
  • I’m struggling a bit to finish this off.
  • I think it’s because I seem to be trying to write it with the tone of an academic article of sorts, whereas right now it’s really blog post territory.
  • I have rough thoughts and questions, areas to read more.
  • If I try and present it as thorough research I’ll never finish it. I think I’ll change the tone.

• Jammed:

  • Hania Rani - On Giacometti: A Live Performance at Atelier in Stampa
    • Listening to this in the shade of a tree in the sunshine at the cemetery while R sleeps in the buggy. Peaceful.
    • Very emotive piano performance.

• A view in [[Ulverston cemetery]]

⥅ [[../photos/ulverston-cemetery.jpg]]

• Perhaps a good way to distinguish myself from an AI is to speak more of my embodied experiences as a human in the world.

  • I tend to keep those private, but worth considering.

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Today in Focus: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest]]
    • Not very interesting really. Two of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world fighting over more power and wealth.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Free and open-source software as (non-) liberatory technology
  • Automating science
  • The Ghost of the Author: Mechanisation, Metricisation and Narrative Contraction in the Age of AI

2026-05-23

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Knowledge, data and information are critical production resources]].
  • [[Knowledge, data and information are exploited to reinforce capitalist control]].
  • [[Control over information flows is a vital factor in modern class conflict]].

• [[Libre software and liberatory software]].

2026-05-21

• Note for [[Setting up a new box]]:
  • use git-restore-mtime on cloned org-roam repos, to get ordering by date in the completion buffer

• Joined the [[Agora]]. [[Spacious nexus]] is now visible on @bunnynabbit.

• Upgraded [[SilverBullet]] to 2.8.0.
  • Checking out its new built-in Journal library.

• [[worked]]
• [[Social.coop]]:
  • Then met with [[Matt Noyes]] to discuss [[social.coop]]!
    • [[cooperative todo lists]]
    • [[memoirs of prison]] by [[Nelson Pereira dos Santos]]
    • [[safety maximizing]] vs [[freedom maximizing]]
      • [[safety maximizing]] -> [[intentional relationships]]
      • should we kick off some proposals? which ones?
    • three respects:
      • the relationships
      • the people who try to improve the system/work on it
      • the notion of consent and preference maximizing

2026-05-18

• [[Reform UK and digital technologies]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Reform UK uses TikTok as a core component of its communication strategy]]
  • [[Reform use targeted digital campaigns to deliver messages that speak directly to the priorities of local communities]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
    • Quite a mind expanding listen. I think I’m starting to grasp it, and it’s more just getting used to new terminology than a particularly complicated concept, I think.
    • Closed and open sounds like it could have interesting parallel to horizontal and vertical in organisational ecology.
    • It’s unclear to me how anything in this theory applies to actually changing the world, but it’s either that it’s a case of better understanding the enemy in order to then figure out how to overthrow it, or simply that I haven’t clocked it yet.
    • Ah fair enough at the end that question comes up and he says he has focused on description rather than alternative. Jan Groos points to some possible leftist similarities.

• [[Data brokers]]. Vacuuming up your data, then asking you to opt out of them using it.

• I seem to be having the usual post fresh install snappiness, which is nice. Like I say everytime, I should do it more often…

  • I’ve gotten back up and running pretty quickly.
  • The main thing I need to improve on is how I have slightly different config between my personal and work configs for Emacs, and I haven’t yet got a decent way of checking those changes in.

2026-05-17

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Future Histories International: Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory]]
    • [[Critical systems theory]]. I haven’t understood half of what’s been said so far. But combining [[systems theory]] and [[critical theory]] sounds interesting.
    • Traces systems theory line through [[Humberto Maturana]] and [[Francisco Varela]] to [[Niklas Luhmann]].
    • Then I believe the idea is to address the absence of politics in Luhmann’s systems theory.
    • [[autopoiesis]].
  • Today in Focus: Outrage as oil giants profit billions from Iran war – The Latest
  • Today in Focus: What next for Labour as Reform wins big in local elections? – The Latest
    • Greens got a lot of the vote, but didn’t translate into a lot of seats. Reform targeted well so took a lot of the seats.
    • [[Local government is a key locus for fleshing out party apparatus]], so this is bad news…

• "According to the CPJ, Israeli forces were responsible for two-thirds of all the journalist killings around the world last year."

  • Guardian newsletter
  • [[Israeli forces were responsible for two-thirds of all the journalistic killings around the world in 2025]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for …
    • "The [[European Democracy Shield]] and the [[EU Strategy for Civil Society]] present measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems: free people, free and fair elections, free and independent media, a vibrant civil society and strong democratic institutions."
  • Linux Distributions as Coops?
    • [[Linux]] [[Cooperatives]].
  • Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention
    • "This document from the [[Metagov]] community has two goals. First, it identifies distinct layers of the [[AI stack]] that can be named and reimagined. Second, for each layer, it points to potential strategies, grounded in existing projects, that could steer that layer toward meaningful collective governance."
  • Decolonizing Degrowth: Ecosocialist Alternatives to Green Colonialism and Une…
    • "By engaging grassroots struggles and internationalist justice claims, the article outlines pathways for just [[ecosocialist transition]]s rooted in energy democracy, global redistribution, and relational ecological care."

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Local government is a key locus for fleshing out party apparatus]]

• How does [[Reform UK]] use digital technology? How to counter it?

2026-05-15

• Doing a fresh Linux install.

  • Permanently low on space on my 256Gb drive for some reason, getting a bit sick of it.
    • I blame Snap, Flatpak, node_modules, and keeping a Windows 10 partition around for support purposes.
  • Also on an old version of Mint, solely needed a distro upgrade anyway.
  • But I’m in fact giving Zorin a go. Mainly to get a sense of whether it’s something worth recommending in the Repair Cafe.
  • I will likely install Debian later for myself.
  • So - let’s see how quick to install and get back to a state where I can do work again. Time to dig out the [[Setting up a new box]] notes…

• [[Notes on Zorin 18.1]].

• Some notes for amendments to my new box notes…

  • I need to add fish install to new box instructions.
  • Use git ssh rather than https for git clone of private repos.
  • spacemacs install is by far most time consuming step.
    • bit annoying that you can’t leave it unattended - asks to install sqlite and vterm
      • maybe you can?
  • why is my org repo so big?
  • my dotfiles are now on codeberg
  • it’s now nerd icons for icon fonts

2026-05-14

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • The Explicit Manifesto of Digital Fascism: Palantir and the Alliance of Monopoly Capital with the Far Right
    • "The [[Palantir manifesto]] is not merely a document from a tech company announcing its positions. It is a loud alarm bell that progressive forces must hear clearly: the battle over the future of technology is no longer lurking backstage. It has stepped into the open, announcing itself without shame. Those who delay in grasping this shift delay their entry into the most decisive arena of struggle in this century."
    • [[Digital fascism]].
  • The Capitalist Vision of Artificial Intelligence: Profit, Power, and Control
    • "The current development of [[artificial intelligence]] cannot be understood merely as technical progress, it is part of a system of class domination through which major corporations and capitalist states seek to increase profits, concentrate wealth, and reproduce existing relations of production"
  • The Leftist Alternative to Artificial Intelligence
    • "This vision aims to liberate [[AI]] from the constraints of the capitalist market and redirect it toward serving all humanity, transforming it into a means to improve quality of life, free people from burdensome routine labor, and enhance human creativity in all areas."
  • Reform faces questions over tech investor’s role in cost-cutting drive - BBC News
  • Algorithmic politics: How Reform UK is leveraging TikTok in the next election
  • How digital strategy helped shape Reform’s breakthrough | Millbank - Leading digital for global leaders
  • AI-and-the-productivity-revolution.pdf
  • Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner’s Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch – Byline Times
  • Reform UK, Big Tech, and the Future of Online Safety in Britain
  • A modern machine write-up - A-modern-machine-write-up.pdf
  • Farage trying to avoid scrutiny over £5m gift from crypto billionaire, Labour…
  • What’s behind surge in support for Reform and Greens across England? Five key…
  • How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now …
  • Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replace…
  • ‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery …
  • Main Page — ibis.wiki
  • AI as a Fascist Artifact
  • Acting ethically in an imperfect world
  • European Alternatives - Discover European & Open Source Software

2026-05-13

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • The AI Denial Industry: The Left’s MAHA - by Alexei Gannon
  • Artificial Intelligence, Universal Machines, and Killing Bourgeois Dreams
  • Artificial Intelligence

• [[Simon]] told me about many interesting things!
  • [[sgmk wiki]]

2026-05-12

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Today in Focus: The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage]]
    • Rich crypto guy has given tens of millions of pounds to Brexit Party and Reform over the years.
    • Tether.
    • Suspected motive: wants to be the ‘king of crypto’.
    • Donates to parties that he feels most likely to be favourable to crypto.
    • No link between his massive donations and any pro-crypto positions, of course.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The Left Must Plan for AI - by Alexei Gannon

2026-05-11

• It’s a shame that the end of Windows 10 is being capitalised on by Google to capture people to Chrome OS Flex.
  • It’s a perfect opportunity for a little bit of technological liberation and a move to Linux.
  • Rather than a jump from one Big Tech ecosystem to another.

2026-05-10

• Wrote:

  • [[We need a digital shock doctrine for the left]]

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Bridging the Digital Divide Between the Left and Capitalism, an Urgent Mission for Left Movements]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[In times of crisis, capitalism reinvents and restructures itself using advanced scientific and technological tools]]

2026-05-09

• Reflecting upon the use cases of current AI, they feel mostly boil down to doing something you could feasibly have done before, but now you can do it faster, and yourself rather than needing help from others.
  • I suppose that’s pretty much a description of all technology.
  • So the question is do you really need to do it that fast? How come? At what cost? (As with all technology).
  • If a technology can be used to increase emancipation, reduce toil, for all, without exploiting labour or nature, then good. If not, scrutiny is required.
  • AI can reduce toil, the others seem uncertain.

2026-05-08

• Jammed:

  • [[Autechre - Piezo]]
  • daniel.mp3 - green to blue
    • Via: E
  • Hania Rani - Alberto
    • Emotive piano.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Palantir’s manifesto: Technofascism in plain sight
  • Met investigates hundreds of officers after using Palantir AI tool
  • Resisting Big Tech Empires - Global Justice Now

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Gen Z 212 and Youth Protests in Morocco: From the Digital Sphere to the Street]]
  • [[The left is missing out on AI]]
    • Only skim read, but argument seems to be that left critique of AI is overly focused on the fact that LLMs don’t represent AGI.
    • I don’t know if that’s true. I do agree that purely critiquing AI on it not being actually intelligent seems flawed.
    • To describe LLMs as just a kind of fancy autocomplete seems a bit disingenous.
    • To me, LLMs/GenAI seems like a quite remarkable technology but currently with remarkably [[authoritarian technics]].
    • The question of whether they could ever have democratic/libertarian technics seems like a good debate to have.

• As I create more main notes, a graph view of constellations would become increasingly handy.

2026-05-07

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Today in Focus: Why has the world lost sight of the suffering of Palestinians? – The Latest]]
  • [[Future Histories International: Rodrigo Nunes on Ecologies of Organization and Democratic Transformation]]
  • [[Today in Focus: Big oil making $30m an hour from Iran war - The Latest]]
  • [[Today in Focus: George Monbiot on our fragile food system]]
  • [[The Louis Theroux Podcast: S7 EP4: Stewart Lee on "Netflix comedians”, disastrous gigs, and Elon Musk"]]
  • [[Today in Focus: Meta‘s AI glasses and the dawn of wearable tech]]

• I didn’t listen to all of those today, I’ve copied them out of my recent listen history from [[AntennaPod]].

  • Unfortunately it doesn’t tell you which day you listened to it.

2026-05-06

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[GNU/Linux is the libre alternative to Windows]]
  • [[Libre software is not automatically liberatory software]].

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • State of the Fossil-Free Internet Report

• A benefit of ‘writing in public’, via a digital garden / zettelkasten, is that, if you cared, it would be fairly easy to audit that the writing has been constructed by a human.

  • You could trace the journey of bookmarks -> reference notes -> main notes -> structure notes -> posts.
  • Especially if there’s some kind of version control (via wiki software or a git repo).

2026-05-04

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[Microsoft Windows is a capitalist technology]].
  • [[We must build alternatives to capitalist technologies]].
  • [[We need a pattern language of political organisation]].

2026-05-03

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The shock doctrine of the left - Uneven Earth]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Change brought through parliamentary politics tends to be slow, incremental, and easily reversible]].
  • [[The second Iraq War was exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
  • [[The financial crisis of 2008 was exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
  • [[Climate disasters are exploited by the neoliberal shock doctrine]].
  • [[We must intervene informed by a map of how things are and how our intervention can shape them productively]]
  • [[Systems thinking is helpful for political transition]]

2026-05-02

• [[Zettled]]:
  • [[The global memory shortage crisis is a digital shock]].
  • [[Windows 10 end-of-life is a digital shock]].
  • [[The boom of AI is a digital shock]].

2026-05-01

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[We haven’t reached the end of history]].
  • [[The left needs a programme of building and promoting alternative institutional forms]].
  • [[Big Tech controls the digital commanding heights of the economy]].

• Wrote:

  • [[A digital shock doctrine for the left]]

• Noding from work? Is such a thing even possible?
  • Yeah.
• I haven’t been writing as much in the Agora as of late, and I think one of the factors (not the only one) is that I actually broke my web editing when I made web editing possible for hosted Agora users :) (as my garden is not really hosted in that sense).

2026-04-30

• Published:

  • [[Emacs Carnival: Starter Kits]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Get ready for Orgy in 15 minutes — Bastien Guerry
    • "Orgy is a static website generator for [[Org]] files."

• Zettled:

  • [[The shock doctrine for the left contains elements of smashing, building, healing and taming]].
  • [[The direction our world takes in moments of chaos is defined by the ideas and institutions that are already available]].
  • [[The left should take disruptive actions to create chaos as points of leverage for system change]].

2026-04-28

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Looks Like New: What is the future of digital capitalism?]]
    • Interview with [[Nick Srnicek]] mostly around [[Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI]].
    • Starts with a handy little summary (for me) of AI since 2012.
      • Deep learning, transformer model, then basically just scaling up of that.
    • Mentions [[Collective Intelligence Project]] as something exploring leftist potentials for AI.

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[A shock doctrine is a political strategy for navigating crises]].

• It’s time to start latest Emacs Carnival post, cutting it fine 2 days before end of month as usual :D

• Wrote:

  • [[Emacs Carnival: Starter Kits]]

2026-04-26

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Digital dependency is the opposite of digital sovereignty]].
  • [[The US uses digital dependency as a weapon in trade negotiations]].
  • [[The US constitutes most of Big Tech]].
  • [[The public sector should be the first arena we push for sovereign tech alternatives]].

• I’m finding doing Zettelkasten-y things, particulary as outlined in [[A System for Writing]], very useful.

  • And, most importantly, resulting in me publishing more writing (see [[my blog posts]]).
  • I do have a slight concern at the back of my mind that it’s making my digital garden less interesting to navigate around for an external party. I think there’s something to be said for dishevelled narrative over tidy structure.
  • The idea though is that the narrative moves to the blog posts, so, as long as they are discoverable, hopefully it’s a net gain.
  • Will keep it in mind.

• We woke up in at Kirsty’s place and had a lovely morning, then walked through Zürich and came visit Lady Burup :)
• [[KM]] told me about [[León Blum]].

2026-04-25

• Wrote:

  • [[A digital shock doctrine for the left]]
  • [[Some thoughts on digital capitalism]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[We must understand digital capitalism in order to transition away from it]].
  • [[In digital capitalism, the accumulation of capital and power is mediated by digital technologies]]
  • [[Digital capitalism has economic, political, and cultural dimensions]].

• [[Read:]]

  • [[Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective]]

• I set up [[Anagora]] as a bang provider in [[WebLibre]].

  • I like using Anagora for searching topics.
  • It surfaces any notes I might have made about the past on something.
  • I also see anything my friends and comrades might have written about the topic.
  • Then I can fall back to Wikipedia and web search if I want more.

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo]]
    • Digital dependency is the opposite of digital sovereignty.
    • The US uses digital dependency on its Big Tech as a lever in trade negotiations.
    • The US constitutes most of Big Tech.
    • Public sector should be the first realm to adopt sovereign tech alternatives.

2026-04-24

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Capitalism is prone to crisis]].
  • [[Rapid societal transformations are common]].

• [[Read]]:

  • [[]]
    • Skimming through, the notion of digital disruptions and leverage is good, right on point for me right now.
    • The analysis of where leverage might best be applied also looks useful.
    • The proposed tactics seem quite tame and reformist however.

2026-04-23

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Macrodose: Digital Sovereignty vs Big Tech w/ Cecilia Rikap & Paolo Gerbaudo]]

• #push [[CWG]]
  • [[Social.coop concerns]] meeting
  • Yikes!

2026-04-22

• Jammed:

  • The Sight Below - Dour
  • Gescom - Key Nell 3

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism]]
    • Defines [[technocapitalism]].
    • Evolution of industrial capitalism to beyond just the material to incorporate knowledge.
    • Similarish analysis to [[platform capitalism]], [[Vectoralism]], [[technofeudalism]], etc.

• I worked, I felt tired through the day again (maybe a sequel of the virus I got ~10d back) but made it through and then I saw [[KM]] :)
• I went to [[Bitwäscherei]] at the end of the night and the commons was lively and inspiring as usual!
• I continued doing [[Agora development]], which after all is my passion, and drank tea and typed away until about midnight.

2026-04-21

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • BrowserGate
    • "[[Microsoft]] is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to [[LinkedIn]]’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm."
    • Ugo

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Barbells]]
    • I used to really enjoy reading Gordon Brander. I still do, to be fair. Very knowledgeable and engaging.
    • But you could not find a more depressing pivot - the trajectory from building tools for collective knowledge commoning to bunkering down into an awful AI-fuelled individualism is a sad tale of our times, I think.
    • It’s The Road for the LLM era.

• Thatcherism, 2026: There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and their families of agents.

2026-04-20

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Global PC Shipments Grow 3.2% YoY in Q1 2026 on Pre-emptive Buying Before Memory-led Price Increases
    • "The growth was fueled by two key drivers – pre-emptive buying before memory-led price increases hit the retail level, and the necessary hardware refreshes caused by the termination of Windows 10 support."
    • [[global memory shortage crisis]] / [[Windows 10 end-of-life]]
  • France is ditching Windows for digital sovereignty - and its new Linux stack is taking shape
    • "France’s government is switching from Windows to a Linux desktop. The desktop will be based on the police Linux distro, [[GendBuntu]]. The distro includes France’s own suite of open-source desktop programs."

• I’m trying to recognise digital shocks, to see how are playing out in relation to resilience and transition. To learn from that for future shocks.

  • The global memory shortage crisis is a digital shock.
  • Windows 10 end-of-life is a digital shock.
  • The onset of AI is a digital shock.

• I went to [[ZW]] near midnight and I met old and new friends!
  • Old: [[Koch]] [[Marlon]] [[Tyson]] [[Aaron]]
  • New: [[Uwe]] [[Jara]]
• [[2026-04-18]] was also great!
• [[Remember]]

2026-04-19

• Structured:

  • [[Digital shocks, resilience and transition]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Resilience is the capacity of a system to survive crises, disruptions, shocks, and attacks]].
  • [[Resilience is not necessarily a good thing]].
  • [[Capitalism is a very resilient system]].

• [[KM]] left early to go to Graubunden; I spent the day with Burup playing and coding, went to the gym, transplanted some plants, and then met [[KM]] in beautiful [[Wipkingen]] where we originally met. We had a lovely evening!

2026-04-18

• [[Read]]:

  • [[What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?]]
    • Helpful definitions of authoritarianism, fascism, digital democracy and resilience.
    • In terms of how to do things differently, lots of overlaps with other programmes I’ve looked at for reclaim the stacks.
    • It’d be good pull it in properly to that analysis.
    • "resilient democracy especially matters in situations of multiple crises"
      • Seems adjacent to the left having a shock doctrine.

• Blog post idea - something to do with crises, shocks, resilient democracy, shock doctrine of the left, based on reading Fuchs article.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism
    • "we need to identify the roots of the problem in order to conceive radically [[anti-capitalist]] perspectives, rather than lose ourselves in reforms or try to take control of [[capitalist technology]]"
  • Exchange, obligation, accountability: Moral orders of technology repair in Kampala, Uganda
    • "developed the concept of moral orders of [[repair]], defining it as the norms, rules, values, and expectations that support and structure practice, exchange, and collaboration in everyday repair worlds and beyond"
      • Via: someone on social.coop

2026-04-16

• [[Read]]:
  • [[What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?]]

2026-04-13

• [[Read]]:

  • [[How the left can win back the internet – and rise again]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • After soaring 2,200%, DDR4 RAM prices finally fall — but don’t get too excited
    • "We’ve witnessed another hint that the RAM crisis is deescalating — at least a touch — along with an interesting move by the Korean government to try to protect consumers from the worst excesses of PC component price hikes."
    • [[global memory shortage crisis]]
  • Old public PCs for vulnerable groups amid chip price surge
    • "[[South Korea]] will increase the reuse of computers previously used by public agencies and expand support programs for vulnerable groups in response to rising prices of semiconductors"
    • [[global memory shortage crisis]]
  • ‘Computers are no longer a bicycle for the mind’: Frameworks founder says the Steve Jobs era is over and PCs are now a ‘self-driving car that takes you directly to the destination’
    • "[[Framework]], the computer company fixated on letting you define and endlessly update your PC, is now taking a stand against the cloud, AI, and the lack of PC [[ownership]]"
  • Google’s Free Windows PC Upgrade Offer—Millions Must Act Before Deadline
    • "Google has simplified this with “a new ChromeOS Flex USB Kit," available through its partnership with Back Market to “help you install our fast, secure and free operating system.”"
    • According to this article, uptake of BackMarket’s ChromeOS Flex USBs (as a means to come off Windows 10) has been ‘huge’ and now sold out. Disappointed they chose to push Flex rather than Linux.
  • Report - A repair voucher scheme for London: an overview of different models and their potential impact
    • "This report summarises research exploring the feasibility of a regional [[repair voucher scheme for London]] that covers both textiles and electricals and electronics by examining the possible delivery models, enabling conditions, and the benefits of such a scheme."
  • Resistance in the data-driven society
    • "This essay explores the possibility of individual and collective resistance vis-à-vis datafication, drawing on examples from across the globe. It shows how infrastructure, political agency, and tactics have changed in response to datafication. It reviews six resistance tactics, distinguishing between “defensive resistance” and “productive resistance”: self-defence, subversion, avoidance, literacy, counter-imagination, and advocacy campaigning. Investigating them offers insights on the ability of social actors to contribute to innovation in mobilising practices amidst intrusive surveillance."
  • What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?
    • "the paper introduces a holistic approach to resilient digital democracy that spans environmental, technological, economic, political, and cultural domains, and advances strategies such as public-commons digital infrastructures, platform co-operatives, public service Internet platforms, free/libre open source software (FLOSS), participatory innovations, and hybrid offline/online democratic practices"
  • Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies
    • "Drawing on traditions of the [[social and solidarity economy]], free and open-source cultures, and feminist and decolonial technoscience, the special issue explores how communities across the world build [[technological sovereignty]] from below"

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[A lot of people use Meta products]]
  • [[The world uses Meta products for some positive functions]]

• Structured:

  • [[Why and how to move away from Meta]]

• Wrote:

  • [[Reminder: abolish Meta]].

2026-04-12

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Working with the end in sight]]
    • Interesting critique of Zettelkasten.
    • Gist is: just take reference notes and use search; abstracting out atomic ideas into reusable pieces is unnecessary friction.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Digital Fascism and Digital Capitalism
    • "theorises [[digital fascism]] as a contemporary form of right-wing authoritarianism rooted in capitalism and reorganised through digital infrastructures."
    • [[tripleC]] newsletter
  • Keep Android Open
    • "In August 2025, [[Google]] announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the [[Android]] platform without first registering centrally with Google"
    • [[F-Droid]]
  • With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy
    • "This might make your phone a little safer, sure, but it won’t stop people from getting scammed. At the same time, it could rob the [[Android]] ecosystem of what made it special in the first place."

• I’m still sick but [[KM]] came over and we did a short bike ride to a Greek cafe nearby I didn’t know about and spent some time together and with [[Lady Burup]], it was great!
  • We lighted a grungy [[candle]] I made long ago.
• [[social coop]]

2026-04-11

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[We should resist, regulate and recode Meta]]
  • [[The triad of digital transition strategies]]
  • [[Work within the system, against the system, and beyond the system]]
  • [[The global memory shortage crisis is caused by the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure]]

• Ecosocialism would clearly make use of a [[Multi-criterial economy]].

• [[Future Histories International: Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life]]

• [[tet]]

2026-04-10

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel
    • "Ruling that [[Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products]] marks possible watershed moment for social media"

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products]]
  • [[Meta is bad for the world]]

2026-04-09

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Why You Should Buy a Laptop Now - The Looming Supply Chain Crisis of 2026.]]
    • A bad take on the [[global memory shortage crisis]].
    • Counterpoint: No, don’t ‘buy a laptop now’. Do what you can to keep the one you already have lasting longer.
  • [[Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis and the Potential Impact on the Smartphone and PC Markets in 2026]]
    • Background to the [[global memory shortage crisis]].
  • [[Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindles]]
    • An example of [[software obsolescence]] and [[premature obsolescence]].
    • You might be tempted to resist via jailbreaking and installing [[koreader]], and trying to dedrm your books via [[Calibre]], or just re-download via [[Z-Library]].

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Beyond Capitalism II]]
    • More details on Benanav’s plan.

• [[death and suffering]]

• [[in memoriam]]

2026-04-07

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
    • "environmentalists and socialists will need to recognize their common struggle and how that connects with the broader “movement of movements” seeking a Great Transition."
    • Google Scholar alert
  • We just released the industry’s first ever nature report.
    • "Businesses need to start seeing [[biodiversity loss]] as a core business risk. We need to think beyond just lowering emissions"
      • Via: [[Fairphone]] newsletter

• [[Stapelberg]] told me about [[MQTT]], classic pubsub that works (tm)! Nice.
• [[Jonas]] told me about [[Lissajous curves]]!
• [[EC 2026]]

2026-04-06

• [[Read]]:

  • [[How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity]]
    • Sound likes… [[Agora]]!

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[The value of an idea is determined by its relationship to others]]
  • [[Don’t spend too much time on a main note]]

• I had a great long weekend so far with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and friends!
• Met [[June]], [[MS]] and other friends on Friday.
• We biked a lot with [[KM]] and it was great :)
• Then tonight I came over to [[ZW]] ~ [[ZWZ]] with [[MS]]
• [[digital garden]]
• [[tailscale]]

2026-04-04

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
    • "a preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a [[collaborative zettelkasten]]"
    • [[Bob Doto]]‘s website

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The Difference Between Hub Notes and Structure Notes Explained]]

• I’m going to experiment with refactoring some of my overstuffed concept notes.

  • Into smaller main notes, hub notes, and structure notes.
  • I think I’ll start with [[ecosocialism]] and [[digital ecosocialism]].
  • [[Refactoring some of the notes in my garden]].

2026-04-03

• [[Read]]:
  • [[Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes]]
    • On crafting [[main note]]s in [[zettelkasten]].
    • The description of different [[types of information]] might be helpful.
    • As a way of avoiding calling every main note a ‘claim’ - which is kind of what I’ve been doing, insofar as I’ve been doing zettelkasten.

2026-04-02

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
    • "The “[[Germany Stack]]” is a central digital-policy project of the German federal government. The FSFE calls for the Stack to be planned in close coordination with European partners and to be implemented entirely as [[Free Software]], since only the four freedoms enable [[digital sovereignty]]."
  • Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes
    • "we’ll zoom in on the [[main note]] itself: a brief look at its components, followed by thoughts on how to craft the primary unit of information it contains, and how to reinforce it with additional information"

• I am doing a bit of a rejig to my site.

  • I’m deprecating the WordPress side of things and moving those bits to Emacs/org.
  • WordPress has served me very well for the ‘stream’ side of my online presence in the past, but I don’t have the time or need to use WordPress right now.
  • So I’ve set https://doubleloop.net to currently redirect straight to https://commonplace.doubleloop.net.
  • Commonplace I’ve always referred to as my digital garden, but it also contains elements of the stream, and long-form articles, within it.
  • I’ll make those a bit more easily discoverable.

2026-03-31

2026-03-30

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The state of Right to Repair in 2026 (and a recap of our work last year)]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Beyond Capitalism]]

2026-03-29

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Is capitalism dead?]]:
    • About [[the end of capitalism]].
    • Unfortunately, it’s all about the end of capitalism in the bad sense - of it being replaced with something worse.
    • Surveys [[McKenzie Wark]] and [[Capital is Dead]], Varoufakis and [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]], Mason and [[Post-capitalism]].
    • Also [[Wolfgang Streeck]] and [[Richard Westra]] and [[Karen Hao]] who I had not come across before.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The rise of end times fascism
    • "The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them"
    • [[Is capitalism dead?]]

• Wrote:

  • Going to start writing latest [[Emacs Carnival]] post today.
  • [[Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions]]

• Seen a couple mentions of [[Readeck]] lately.

  • Someone recommending it over [[Wallabag]].

2026-03-28

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Think You’re Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
    • "a tool to help organizations figure out where they stand when it comes to [[digital sovereignty]]."
    • It’s Foss newsletter
  • Is capitalism dead?
    • "it is now easier to imagine [[the end of capitalism]] than the end of the world"
  • Digital Colonialism, Ecological Crisis and the Limits of Techno-Primitivism
    • "examines the intertwined dynamics of [[ecological crisis]], [[digitalisation]], and [[techno-primitivism]] through a genealogical and syncretic lens."
    • [[tripleC]] mailing list

2026-03-27

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
    • "how infighting has ripped [[the left]] apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide"
    • The Guardian newsletter
  • What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
    • "Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort"
  • modal.cx
    • "Modal is a new independent collective Building [[emancipatory software]] for an uncertain world"
• I wonder whether I should use for example Betula for my bookmarks.
  • Maybe, maybe not. I’ll think about what the benefits might be.
  • But I’m fine with them living messily in my garden for now.

• [[Straight as an arrow]] -> [[Straight like an arrow]]

2026-03-25

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • A World First: Community Wealth Building legislation in Scotland
    • "The [[Community wealth building]] agenda in Scotland might be growing, but incoming legislation will solidify gains and ensure that activity is not done in isolation"
    • web search
  • The Library of Things Toolkit (2.0)
    • "This expanded guide will help you plan, start, and grow a [[Library of Things]] in your community."
    • [[Shareable]] newsletter

• [[Systemic change is a combination of reformist, alternative-building and revolutionary logics]].

• I met [[Aaron]], [[Jonas]].
• I met [[Marlon]] for the first time.
• I met [[Tim]] on the rooftop!

2026-03-21

• [[Listened]]: [[Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance]]
  • The book sounds like a great contribution - very hands on ideas and practice for transition from people who fully understand the bigger picture.
  • Plenty of [[commoning]] talk and I’m happy that all the to see the [[commons-public partnerships]] stuff from [[Free, Fair and Alive]] and [[DisCO]]s here in another light.

2026-03-20

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Popular Protagonism in Venezuela’s Transition to Socialism: A Conversation with Michael Liebowitz
    • "[[socialism]] involves people transforming themselves"
    • search for [[popular protagonism]]

2026-03-19

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[ACFM Microdose: The Green Party]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance]]

• [[Work]] is… tough but interesting/exciting/interesting?
  • This applies to the node as well, in particular its [[Agora context]].
  • Which reminds me I wanted to rename [[Full search]] -> [[Agora search]] in the UI :)
    • And led me to do some work on demo mode plus onboardig experience with Gemini :)

• We went to the [[Velobörse]] with [[KM]] and we got a nice bike for a good price! It was great.
  • It was quite cold and rainy and we felt so-so physically at several times in the day but it’s been a beautiful weekend so far!
  • We reunited with [[Lady Burup]] around 2PM.
• I did some work for G, sending out a document for review, and it felt great.

2026-03-14

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Gen Z 212 and Youth Protests in Morocco: From the Digital Sphere to the Street
    • "Here the relationship between the Moroccan experience and the concept of “[[the electronic left]] and electronic struggle” is manifest, where a tangible social dimension meets a technological-organizational one to produce a new form of political action"

2026-03-13

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism at the Limits of Capitalism: The Climate Politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
    • "analyzes the [[climate politics]] of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA) as a diagnostic case for the structural limitations facing [[eco-socialist]] movements under capitalism"
    • Google Scholar alerts

• [[Are the Green Party of England and Wales ecosocialist?]]

• Get back to Neil more on the order of pushes!
• Meet [[VK]] and [[SZ]] after work :)

2026-03-11

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[ACFM Trip 55: Parties]]

2026-03-10

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants | Transnational Institute
    • "[[Silicon Valley]] has thrown much of its support behind [[Trump]] for reasons of opportunism, appeasement or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions"
    • [[Transnational Institute]] newsletter
  • The Digital Tech Broligarchy’s Interest in Left-Wing Science Fiction: A Critical Reading of the Culture of Techno-Libertarianism
    • "A slew of recent articles has asked what the connection might be between right-wing libertarian [[Silicon Valley]] billionaires and left-wing [[science fiction]]"
    • [[tripleC]] mailing list

2026-03-09

• I am finding the performance of [[Thunderbird]] to be terrible.
  • Connecting it to Zoho Mail via IMAP.
  • I’m just going through my inbox and deleting emails and it regularly takes a CPU to 100%.
  • Might try Betterbird… but will just stick with the webmail for this for now. Something clearly not right when a webapp is performing better than a desktop app.

• Great Saturday!
• We had a great morning and went to the gym with [[KM]] and then I took a nap with [[Lady Burup]] and met [[VK]], then…
• I met [[Claudia]] and [[Andreas]] at [[KM]]‘s home for dinner and then we went to their flat and to [[ZW]], it was great.
• I also found a note of interest in [[ZW]], and when I turned it around I found:
  • [[Urs + Miranda]]
  • [[Gaudi Labs]]
• [[Agora demo]] :)

2026-03-08

• In the absence of time to do much in the way of [[knowledge commoning]] at present, I figure the least I can do is more consistently share my bookmarks.

  • A small contribution, but still better than them sitting privately locally.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey _ What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
    • "In The Story of Capital, the world’s foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism"
    • [[Christian Fuchs]]

2026-03-07

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Mapping the Red-Green Future: A Theoretical Analysis of the Works of James O’Connor, Joel Kovel, and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    • "a critically important foundation for advancing interdisciplinary research that integrates Marxism (red) and ecology (green)"
    • Google Scholar Alerts
  • Exporting org-roam notes to Hugo and Quartz
    • "how we can export our existing org-roam notes to Markdown, which can then be served by a static-site generator like Hugo or Quartz"
    • [[Emacs News]]
  • Migrating website to orgmode
    • "port the website over to orgmode, simplify the css, and bring it over to a new host"
    • [[Emacs News]]
  • Ollama Buddy - Web Search Integration
    • "fetching current information from the web and injecting it into your conversation context"
    • [[Emacs News]]

2026-03-06

• Listened:
  • [[ACFM Trip 57: Ecology]]

• "[[I’m just a curious guy]]…"

2026-03-04

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[This Machine Kills: 437. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 1 (ft. Aaron Benanav)]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Beyond Capitalism
    • "If there is ever to be a left break beyond the current political impasse—the liberal-capitalist establishment locked in a wrestler’s embrace with the ultra-capitalist right—it will ultimately require the elaboration of an economic system [[beyond capitalism]] itself."
    • [[This Machine Kills]]

2026-03-03

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Ripple Effect
    • "Communicational expertise, practical tools, honest analysis of earth system collapse and technological chaos to help social movements win the day"

2026-03-01

• Managed to submit a post for the February carnival: [[Emacs Carnival: Completion]]
  • Quite a rush, but I learned a lot in the process.

• Of any assertion, it can be asked: is it
  • [[True to self]]?
    • Which self?

2026-02-28

• Now that I’ve got Emacs back up and running on my phone, I can try and get an entry in for the February Emacs Carnival.
  • [[Emacs Carnival: Completion]]

2026-02-27

• I had to get a new phone, as my Pixel 5a spontaneously bricked itself.

  • I got a [[Fairphone 6]].
  • I usually get second hand or refurbished phones, but here’s [[My rationale for getting a Fairphone 6]].

• Going through the process of getting things set up on a new phone.

  • My notes in my digital garden are massively helpful for this. Well done past self!
  • They’re a bit scattered though - I’ll try and update them into one page about it..
    • [[Setting up a new phone]].

• Trying out Vulpea.

The things you don't write are left unwritten
The things you don't say, unsaid
The things you don't show, unseen

For how long, maybe?
Until when?

• We had such a beautiful day with [[KM]]! And [[Lady Burup]].
• We went to the gym together for the first time in the morning, and then did a great walk through Zürich hopping from coffee place to coffee place and enjoying the [[sunshine]].
• Yesterday: [[2026-02-23]]

Algún día, algún día
Algún día haremos la revolución
Pero si no ahora, cuándo?

The things you don't say are left unsaid
The things you don't write unwritten
Until one day, maybe?

Las cosas que vimos:
Sucederán, sucederán…

Lo que dijimos:
Sucederá, sucederá…

Las jaras!
Las jaras, qué jaras?

Las de Avalokiteshvara
Las de Maitreya
Y Tara...

Tare tuttare ture
Tuttare tuttare ture
Soha

2026-02-23

• [[The Build & Fight Formula Part 6: Social Digital Infrastructure]]

2026-02-22

• [[Ecosocialism 2024: How capitalism ruined the internet]]
  • [[Lizzie O’Shea]] discusses [[historical materialism applied to technology]].

2026-02-14

• Listened to [[Ian Angus: Why We Need An EcoSocialist Revolution - Socialism 2013]]

• [[stony caramel]]

• Noding this in my new laptop [[avalokiteshvara]] while visiting [[ZWZ]] :)
  • Last visit before going on a trip, likely starting on Tuesday night.
• Earlier this weekend I spent time with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and it was wonderful, even though I woke up with a headache (hopefully the last in this cluster) on Saturday morning.

• 7 ~ [[Avalokiteshvara]] in the [[Flancia]] pattern language :)
• Had a great day with [[KM]]! Despite sleeping little and waking up with a strong headache again — unsure at this point if it’s viral or what is called a [[cluster headache]].
• [[Züriberg]]
• [[Intuit]]
• [[Fondue]]
• [[caramel city]]

• [[Oh fuck]]
• [[caramel city]]

• [[Work]] was interesting despite being still half sick.
• [[Social.coop]] was great, we finally shipped [[1k characters limit]] after long! \o/
• [[Collected Poetry]] after long!

• Back noding!
  • I’m writing this in [[Bitwäscherei]]. The [[Agora]] is being demoed live for the first time! And I’ve met lots of cool people as usual :)
  • I spent Friday and Saturday with [[KM]] and it was great despite our health not being tip top at times :)
  • I feel more than lucky; right now, [[blessed]].
• Work has been fine actually; I was oncall this week and was sick two days but I pushed through and felt quite at ease despite sleeping too little.
• [[Las Jaras]] was special as expected!
  • I threw [[7]] * [[2^9]] over five dice, notable.
  • [[2063]] made an appearance
  • I ran [[collect]] after planning to for long and it felt cathartic! The [[chaos stack]] which was a bunch of literal back of the envelopes going back to 2024 was reviewed/distilled into a notebook and thus can be put away (or, as indicated in some of the envelopes as intention, [[burnt]].)
• Came after [[2026-01-31]]
• Saw [[Koch]]! And [[Aaron]] and many others.
• [[return]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQIxUfYw98
  • maybe during the week with [[KM]]? :)

• [[Las Jaras]]!
  • We were not completely healthy, [[KM]] and me currently, but I enjoyed living these days together!
  • I was home until midnight with [[KM]] (who went home in the afternoon) and [[Lady Burup]] and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]] and I loved it.
  • I ran some [[collect]] I had planned for long (more about this tomorrow…).
  • I updated the [[moodboard]].
  • And coded and enjoyed!

2026-01-31

• Trying to finish off [[Emacs Carnival: This year I’ll…]] today.

  • Last day to submit!

• [[Adding shortcuts for entering email addresses in Heliboard]]

• Back to noding!
• Fixed a security vulnerability (to spam) in the Agora.

2026-01-17

• Went to the webinar [[Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell]] held by [[The Maintainers]].

• I met [[Omega Attraktor]] again today in [[ZW]]! Nice to see them, looking forward to listening to their music.
• Work after the break started fine actually, even though today I didn’t sleep that well for some reason I still had enough energy to go through the first meeting-packed day.

• Noding, #noding, [[noding]]…
  • I don’t know precisely how well the streak is going but I’m happy to be back noding at least a bit every day, most days :)

• Personal life is going beautifully, there was a small setback with a health issue affecting a loved one but things are looking up now!
• My trip to [[Napoli]] with friends was amazing.
• It was beautiful to be reunited with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]!
• I found [[I don’t want my tool to tell me how to think]] very interesting, thank you [[@scalingsynthesis]]!
  • It also inspired me to fix some longstanding Agora bugs with [[canonical wikilinks]] (what we render in [[Agora Server]]…

• Will try to keep up the streak :)
• Saw [[KM]] after the trip and it was lovely! Unfortunately she’s been sick but now feeling better.
• I did [[Return]] day 1 as starting practice for the year and it was great.

• Back home!
• And back journaling, I will try to start a one week streak today :)
• [[Napoli]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[Experimentos]]

2026-01-03

• [[Org Social]] has strong [[IndieWeb]] vibes.

  • P2P, host on your own site, etc.
  • I think it relies more on relays though. I don’t think you could directly mention someone like you would with a webmention.

• I also like that you choose an emoji for reactions, rather than a generic like. Like [[CTZN]] did it.

  • I think that’s a good way to allow reactions while avoiding algorithm pandering.

• Happy new year to all!
• Started the year with friends and loved ones at home; then saw fireworks together from [[Kaferberg]]; then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]] and greeted cool and interesting people.

• Moved out successfully
  • Had to do a bunch of renovations in the room, but now it’s quite cozy
  • Do miss the birds hanging out in the window of the old place
• Finally settled on a [[komorebi]] config
  • Tiling window managers rock!
  • Altho they really don’t play well with some apps like game launchers and such
• Happy new years!
  • Obligatory resolution to make more nodes [[?]]

2025-12-31

• I was trying to set up [[Org Social]].
  • As per the post [[Emacs Carnival: The people of Emacs]], I think it’ll be a good way to be more active in the Emacs community.
  • But it requires Emacs 30.1.
  • I’m only on Emacs 29.
  • Upgrade ahoy!

• [[Berni]] me hizo recordar que quiero convencer a los PMs de Meet para que agreguen un feature en el tier gratuito.

2025-12-30

• I learned about grease.el via [[Emacs News]].
  • Allows file operations by editing a buffer.
  • Then I learned from the comments in that Reddit thread about wdired and similar capabilities.
  • I just tried it, and it’s perfect for solving the problem I have of org-roam’s addition of a timestamp to the front of filenames, and how messy that is when I publish to the web, for those that were created a while ago before I changed how that works. (Or those created on mobile in Doom where I still haven’t changed it).
  • With wdired I can select a rectangle of all those parts of the filenames in the buffer, and delete them, save the buffer, et volia, all the filenames updated! Neat.
  • I have a niggling feeling that one day I may regret removing timestamps from filenames. Some people seem to prefer it that way. But I really don’t like filenames being used to store meta information.

• [[free instruments]]
• I worked from home; spent time with [[Lady Burup]]; played [[Minecraft]] with [[bouncepaw]]; then did grocery shopping for New Years and went to [[KM]]‘s place.

• What a great start to the day in [[Bitwäscherei]], and then what a beautiful day at home with Burup!
  • Coded, wrote, talked with my mum, played with Burup, and just generally tried to flow.

• I had a lovely walk with [[AG]] today and a quick dinner, and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]].

• Met:
  • Some cool people on the rooftop of [[Zentralwäscherei]], including a girl named something like [[Katja]] and her two cool friends.
  • [[Moritz]] after midnight in [[Bitwäscherei]].
  • I also saw [[Marc]] and [[Aaron]] after long!
  • I’m so glad I came back to [[SGMK]] finally; it just kept slipping because of work and commitments, it seems I needed a long weekend to get pressing things done and reboot priorities :)
• Then slept ~6h roughly from 6am to 12am and woke up rested enough :)
• Played [[Minecraft]] with [[KI]] and it was great!
• Then flowed.
• Ran again into [[What is Life?]] by [[Schrödinger]], decided to actually locate a URL where I could read it.
  • Found [[archive]] https://archive.org/details/whatislifephysic0000schr/page/n5/mode/2up
• [[Feynman x 3]]

• Very nice day at home with Burup :)
• Ended up working 8h on projects and making good progress, which felt great! Pretty much as planned.
• Then in the evening I went back to [[Bitwäscherei]]/[[SGMK]] after long and it felt great as well, I hadn’t been back much since April (?) because of travel/work/personal life and my under-prioritizing. I intend to come back more often now!
• [[2025-12-26]]

• Skipped a few? But I’ve been having fun you could say.
• Work is finally calming down as we go into the [[prod freeze]]! Looking forward.
• Feeling quite free, relieved of burdens.
• Worried about some health issues in the family, but staying optimistic and trying to value what we have.

• I just thought of [[suffering]] and what would amount to [[rational suffering]].
  • Think of the suffering of the beings that die to feed others: some of that suffering is justified inasmuch it enables other conscious beings to subsist and negotiate ethical [[tradeoffs]] of their own.
  • When it is kept to a minimum, of course, we seem to arrive at the ethical optimum.
  • Think of worms getting grown and harvested for feed, but also of the beautiful bird hunted by the cat and the fish who die in the nets of [[fisherpeople]].
  • See also: [[trolley science]].
• I also worked and planned the week and did [[Agora]].
• Two days of Agora journaling in a row? Is such a thing even possible? :)

• I finally finished the migration from ‘main’ to ‘master’ for the Agora root, belatedly :)
• I had a great day on [[2025-12-13]] with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]. Thank you!
• New Agora signup! Welcome [[@matthieuG]] :)
• I did some [[Agora development]] with Gemini and made what felt like surprising progress on two of the main December objectives:
  • [[Easier signups]].
    • Completed: ‘join with your git repo’ now exists as a form, talks to [[agora server]] and that talks to the (privileged) [[agora bridge]].
  • [[Federation++]]
    • Completed: send /latest subnodes per user to followers we know of.

• A lovely Saturday with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] at home. Relaxing and interesting. With [[KM]] we did a nice walk in Zürich in the cold weather, knowing it will just keep getting colder.
• The week was pretty brutal at work (3x presentations, 2x reviews, plus planning and some ad hoc meetingsd) — it feels great now that it’s in the past though. I feel I ‘survived’ the last tricky week of the work year; things should quiet down from now on as people start going into holidays mode.

2025-12-07

• Christmas 10k run 2025.
  • Completed!
  • My [[Christmas 10k run playlist]].

2025-12-03

• I should check out [[org-gtd]].
  • From a quick first glance, it looks like a formalised way of doing much of what I’m already doing.
  • So it could be quite useful.
  • I’m wary of two things though:
    • Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
      • The README suggests it written for someone who doesn’t want to be bothered with org-mode’s complexities. Hmm.
    • I tie heavily into org-roam for project reference material. I wonder how org-gtd works with that aspect of GTD.
  • Definitely worth looking further.

• [[I sometimes feel]]:
  • as if I’m [[struck by lightning]]
  • as if I’ve caught fire
  • we will go together until the dark of night
  • (do you know what I mean…?)

Busy working and happy; I’ve been told I look tired at times but recently got some good sleep through the holidays and I feel with high energy levels.

2025-11-30

• [[Emacs Carnival: org-babel]]

• [[albricias]]

2025-11-22

[[Digital colonialism]] is the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people

– [[Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival]]

2025-11-21

• Christmas Pudding 10k.
  • I ran 7k in 43 minutes last night.
  • Playlist
    • Beach House – Myth
    • Proem – She Never Cries
    • Closer Musik – Piraten
    • Vessels – Glass Lake
    • Frog Pocket – Hurrah Sapphire Moon
    • Sieren – Blue Memories
    • The The – This Is the Day
    • Maps – Heya Yaha

• [[testing meet]]